My Zombabe

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My Zombabe
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Theatrical released poster with its previous release date
Directed byBobby Bonifacio Jr.
Screenplay byJuvy Galamiton
Bobby Bonifacio Jr.
Produced byVincent Del Rosario III
Veronique Del Rosario-Corpus
Starring
CinematographyRommel Sales
Edited byNoah Tonga
Music byEmerzon Texon
Production
companies
Viva Films
VinCentiments
Studio Viva
Distributed byViva Films
Release date
  • 10 January 2024 (2024-01-10)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryPhilippines
LanguageFilipino
Box office₱500,000 [1]

My Zombabe (stylized as MY ZOMBabe) is a 2024 Philippine romantic comedy zombie film directed by Bobby Bonifacio Jr. and written by Juvy Galamiton and Bobby Bonifacio Jr.. It stars Empoy Marquez and Kim Molina. The film is about a man fall in love with a beautiful woman who is turning in to a zombie. [2]

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Plot

The film starts with Pong (Empoy) dreaming about a zombie woman who is running in the woods, he is calling Yasmine (Kim) repeatedly and when the woman is about to look at him he suddenly wakes up and Gohan (Yayan) immediately helps his brother to calm him down. Pong is still looking for Yasmine and Gohan jokingly tried to find Yasmine but he told him that Yasmine is already been gone for a very long time. Pong said that he still misses Yasmine then Gohan said that the reason he can't move on is because he still has a photo of Yasmine under his pillow. Gohan tried to tear the picture of Yasmine but Pong stopped him to do it. Gohan discovers that there's a lot of pictures of Yasmine inside of Pong's pillow and tells him to stop daydreaming and they are gonna be late in their morning routine. (A siren noise is played in background indicating of their morning zumba).

Both of them are running and catching up with the others dancing their zumba routine. While the people are dancing the captain is telling them to watch the person next to them because if the person is infected they will forgot the steps of their zumba dance. One of the front dancer is Ahmed who is look pale and forgetting their steps, the captain tell him that he is the star dancer why he look confused in his dance step and question why he look so pale. Marisol, wife of Ahmed is telling alibis that they are having their anniversary and didn't have enough sleep. Gusting also said that maybe Ahmed is tired doing their daily morning routine. The Captain hardly stepped on Ahmed's foot and asking if it's hurt or he didn't feel anything. The Captain wants Ahmed to shut his eyes and the Captain grab his head and aim it into his butt then he fart. Marisol asking her husband to tell what the smell of their Captain's fart and when Ahmed did not speaking anything the Captain aim his gun to Ahmed. Marisol wants Ahmed to sing their favorite song, while hugging him Marisol started to sing. Pong, Gohan and the other people are watching them while crying. When Ahmed is trying to sing he suddenly change and turned into zombie, causing to people to afraid and run. Gohan and Pong run to their house and listening on what happening outside then they hear two gunshot.

Pong and Gohan are back to beach together with the people to have a prayer. When the night gets deeper Pong is imagining Yasmine while playing guitar he imagined that they about to kiss when suddenly see the real yasmine and she is already a zombie. They are both yelling and pong pushes yasmine. The Captain appears and asked Pong of what happened, Pong said that he was bitten by an ant. As the captain leaving Gohan came worrying if Pong was bitten by a zombie, Pong tells him to help him dig the sand and when they dug the sand they saw Yasmine unconsciously and they bring her to their house and that's the start of their struggle of how they keep Yasmine a secret to the captain.

Cast

Production

Zombabe was planned on 2018. They started to shoot the film on 2020 but was postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. [3]

Release

Zombabe was released theatrically on January 10, 2024 under Viva Films. It was previously set on January 8 before pushed back two days later in current date to give more space away from the extension of 2023 Metro Manila Film Festival. [4] [5] [6]

Reception

The movie received a score of 67/100 from 10 reviews according to review aggregator website Kritikultura, indicating generally positive reviews. [7]

Philbert Dy of Letterboxd gave Zombabe a 3 stars and wrote: The movie as a whole is still pretty clunky, with scenes that go on for far too long, and a resolution that is just another example of the film's apparent disdain for narrative and logical consistency. And yet, it lands on something sweet and unusual; arriving at a conclusion that feels kind of unique in our cinema. [8]

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